Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Graphing Polynomial Functions
Here's a very detailed, step-by-step activity for students to do to learn about the relationship between the factored form of a polynomial function and its graph. Calculator instructions for the TI-83 are given, right down to the screen...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Graph Polynomial Functions
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to check the sum or difference of polynomial functions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Analysis: Graphing Calculator to Analyze Polynomial Functions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson uses a graphing calculator to graph polynomial functions. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Evaluating and Graphing Polynomials
Twenty-two problems present a variety of practice evaluating and graphing polynomials. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution"...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on Polynomial Functions
Learners demonstrate comprehension of advanced mathematical concepts in Algebra II. The questions check understanding on polynomial functions. Topics include degree, roots, and graphing.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Analyzing Graphs of Polynomial Functions Using Zeros
Fourteen problems present a variety of practice analyzing graphs of polynomial functions using zeros. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 2: Graph Rational Functions
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to analyze the end behavior of polynomial functions.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Polynomials
The definition and properties of polynomial functions are explained, and their graphs explored. Examples and LiveMath notebook activities make the site interactive in getting the students to test their knowledge of the material.
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Polynomial Functions
Students investigate how to sketch and find solutions to higher degree polynomials. Topics explored are dividing polynomials, roots of polynomials, graphing polynomials, and finding zeroes of polynomials. Class notes, definitions, and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Analysis: Polynomial Function Limits
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Finding the limits of polynomial functions using theorems and operations on limits
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Remainder Theorem, Polynomial Expansion, and Tangent Line
In this Derive activity, students use the Remainder Theorem to find a tangent line to the graph of a polynomial function.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Graphing Calculator to Analyze Polynomial Functions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Extend polynomial identities to the complex numbers.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Polynomials in Standard Form
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn about standard form and how to classify and simplify polynomials.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Algebra: Drawing Curves
Mangahigh is a website with math games aimed at twelve to eighteen year olds. On this site students draw graphs of polynomial functions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Analysis: Graphing Polynomials
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers finding the minimum(s), maximum(s), end behavior, domain, and range of a polynomial graph. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice,...
William Mueller
William Mueller: Families of Functions
Meet the Function Family! Each member of the family has examples of their graphs and descriptions of the types of real-world situation that produce those graphs.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Polynomial Functions and Equations
Want to find the roots of a polynomial function? Learn how, using several methods in this tutorial. Graphing and Scientific Notebook are used on the main page. Click on the "Dinosaur Method" link at the bottom of the page to see the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Translations of Parent Graphs
This activity utilizes the TI-Navigator and Activity Center to explore translations of a parent graph.
Curated OER
Polynomial Functions of the First Degree
A java applet that lets you graph a first degree polynomial and see how changing the coefficients changes the graph.
Richland Community College
Richland Community College: Algebra Lecture Notes
This site from Richland Community College provides lecture notes to a class on Algebra. It covers a wide array of topics including functions, quadratic equations, inequalities, and much more.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Analysis: Graphing Cube Root Functions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers graphing cubed root functions. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice and attempt practice problems.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Special Functions Model
This downloadable java simulation shows a variety of special functions. Functions included are Legendre polynomials, Chebyshev polynomials, and Bessel functions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Slope of the Tangent Line (Part2)
In this activity, students graph the cubic and quadratic functions. They also graph the slope values of the tangent lines for each of the function graphs.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Quest for Roots of Higher Order Equations
Students learn how to approximate the roots of any polynomial equation of any order by first using tables, and then by tracing along the graph to the point where the curve intersects